Catalog
1000 Afghanis
| Issuer | Da Afghanistan Bank |
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| Year | 1358-1991 |
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| Size | 160 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown and deep red-violet on multicolour underprint. The bank arms with horseman vignette at top centre, above a central vignette of the Blue Mosque (Shrine of Hazrat Ali) in Mazar-i-Sharif, revered as the burial site of Ali bin Abi Talib, cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. Intricate guilloche patterns frame the design on both sides. |
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| Reverse lettering | Da Afghanistan Bank 1000 AFGHANIS |
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The 1358 SH / 1979 CE date range marks the year of the Soviet invasion, and Da Afghanistan Bank continued issuing notes through a decade of occupation and into the civil war that followed withdrawal. By the time this series was still circulating in 1991, the afghani had lost most of its practical value to hyperinflation — the 1000-afghani denomination, once significant, had become a routine transaction note.
Multiple printing runs across this period introduced subtle variation in ink density and serial block formatting that specialists track but catalog listings rarely distinguish.